xvi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index

The beginning: development in the care of the mentally ill before 1840 -- The birth of organized psychiatry in the 1840s -- The formative years: 1850-1899 -- Psychiatry as a social force: 1900-1949 -- Psychiatry advances as a medical speciality: 1900-1949 -- Medicine and society: toward shared authority and power, 1950-1986 -- Building a stronger American Psychiatric Association after 1950 -- Appendices: Benjamin Rush -- The founding fathers: Brief biographical sketches -- Dorothea Dix -- The medical directors of the American Psychiatric Association -- Museum building -- The headquarters at 1400 K Street -- Officers and meeting places of the American Psychiatric Association

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